Adrian A. Lorenzana

Devious Dark Elf's Copper and Pearl Amulet of Procrastination

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.

I read this article today and quite liked it

www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...

An analogy came to mind when reading it: if the cloud is feudalism, self hosted is sustenance farming.

And now PM attends Vancouver Pride Parade

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

The last Millennial.

Hoooooly

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

Just learned that one of my faculty colleagues is leaving the US for Europe, due to scientific funding cuts and other changes here. The first I know of but not the last, I suspect.

I’ve been a people pleaser a lot of my life, but in 2024 I learned an important lesson: that I only need to please myself. And my Latin American cult following.

This is true in all 50 states, in US territories, under federal law, and in DC.

Signed,
A Criminal Law Prof

THE STEVE URKEL OF COVID TWITTER

Just the most awful day but I really love Victoria

Masked ICE agents hauled workers out of a pizza place in my Massachusetts town today.

Do I feel safer? No, the opposite. Do I feel wealthier? Not a bit. Do I feel that justice is being served? No, not that, either.

I’m mostly infuriated by armed, masked men roaming around and grabbing people.

I’ll never live down my shame

Oh no

Finally able to check the news what’s poppin

I’ve made so many oopsies in Victoria already :(:(:(

Honestly I didn’t know this was even possible lmao

If they could have, they presumably would have.

The party of small government, folks.

You first, peepaw

86% of all U. S. drowning deaths occur when people deliberately drive or walk into flood waters.

YOU KNOW I went on PubMed as soon as I read this and there are VERY valid reasons why he probably did not get hired anywhere 🫠

LMAO THIS GUY: "This isn’t a political stunt or publicity grab." 🙄

Columbia and Brown signing agreements has shown the admin that universities are going to roll over when their revenue streams are threatened, and they're going to act more aggressively now. This is really bad.

This is one of those true jawdropping moments in science - absolutely crazy cool work from Michael and team 🤩

if we can get 50 shares on this video, bluesky has the juice for music promotion

Day five of eating fast food on the road
I crave death

It's time for academics to seriously consider collectively organizing a boycott of institutions that cave to the Trump Administration and surrender their academic freedom while imperiling everyone else's.

No visits. No publications. No tenure letters. No lectures.